I am delighted Redcar & Cleveland councillors are supporting a Yorkshire Festival, though I expected no less than the comments from Councillor Dunning.

I long for the day when our Yorkshire county is returned to us and the disgusting names of Teesside and Tees Valley are buried for all time.

I only hope Steve Kay sticks to his promise to remove our Welcome to Tees Valley signs. We live in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on the North Yorkshire coast, not the Teesside coast, adjacent in my case to the North York Moors.